Larry Lyons wrote: > Does that include the chinook winds off the Rockies? When I was in Calgary > for a few weeks, I remember a chinook that melted about 2 or 3 feet of snow > in a couple of hours.
Well the Chinook winds come up from the Gulf of Mexico channeled by the Rockies, but yeah that was a yearly event for me when I lived in Montana. Once or twice a winter we would go to sleep with the world covered in snow and wake up to a fall day of blue skies and empty grounds. A family story from my mother. One winter morning in Great Falls, MT she was driving to work when she comes up behind a black sports car with Texan license plates inching along at about 10mph through a couple of inches of dry, powdery snow. She cautiously passes him giggling to herself. That night there was a partial Chinook that melted most of the snow into a liquidly slush followed by a quick freeze leading to a lot of black ice. The next morning she is driving slowly to work when she stops at a stop sign. Looking into her rear view mirror, she sees the same Texan, black sports car speeding toward the intersection at least 15mph above the speed limit. He zooms up behind her, hitting his breaks hard at the last moment. His car immediately starts sliding on the ice. He does a perfect 180 around my mothers car and continues spinning right through the intersection coming to rest at on the opposite corner, missing all cross traffic. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:297373 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
